Email Marketing Award Winners 2006

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SUMMARY: Save this issue in your "swipe file" for inspiration for your next email campaign or strategy meeting. Worth noting -- every campaign is being honored based on real-life *results* (not just creative). Includes:

-> 12 B-to-B email campaigns
-> 6 Best email newsletters
-> Campaigns from Blockbuster, Intercontinental Hotels, Ghiradelli, IBM, CareerBuilder & Canadian Blood Services.

Plus, find out which brand won four awards (a record achievement) and which little-known ad agency won three for itself and clients.

Here are creative samples and background details on 38 of the very best email campaigns ever:
http://www.MarketingSherpa.com/sample.cfm?contentID=3242
(Open access *forever* - yes you can add this link to your blog)

A Small Sample of 20 Untapped Niches

A Small Sample of 20 Untapped Niches

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mudd shoes
kitchen canister set
football decal
rooster lamp
discount mini blinds
balloon shades
tortilla maker
gasoline scooter
conga drum
gazebo kit
bedding daybed
curling iron
shin splints
curve cologne
yoga mat bag
paintball gun barrels
child pageant dress
gear knob shift
awning fabric

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HOW TO GET YOUR BUSINESS CREATIVE JUICES FLOWING

The Key to Conversion is "Write A Better Article"
Here is a good example from Matt Bacak


HOW TO GET YOUR BUSINESS CREATIVE JUICES FLOWING
Copyright 2006 The Powerful Promoter

Creativity, Originality, Imaginative thinking�

You've no doubt heard about thinking outside the box. Very often, business creativity is referred to as thinking outside the box. You can get locked in to your day-to-day operational thinking inside the box, and forget totally about the requirements of the need for business creativity. It is very easy to lose sight of adding creativity to your business while you work daily at accomplishing nearby goals.

Ways to Promote Creativity Within Your Business

1. Examine the assumption that the way your company does things is the only way to go. The counter argument to any new way of creative thinking in your business will likely be, but it's always been done this way! Employees become comfortable with the way the business operates, and some may not embrace change very easily. Creativity means change. You can begin to challenge your fixed business methods by meeting with key employees and managers to brainstorm new thinking. Start your change process slowly; remembering that it probably took a while for your employees to be comfortable with their present way of accomplishing their tasks and change will take time.

2. At the brainstorming session, be sure to make the first few meetings comfortable ones. Nothing stifles business creativity more than a threatening atmosphere of �we will make change no matter what�! It may take a few casual breakfast meetings to instil the beginnings of this new approach. You will soon discover who are the �pros� and the �cons� within this process change. You can choose team leaders for creative thinking within the company, from the supporters of your new process.

3. Consider bringing in an outside expert on business creativity to hold a company wide seminar to start people thinking that maybe creative change is not necessarily threatening, but a way to guarantee continuing growth for the company and more secure employment. Ask the creative consultant to show examples of positive change and to hold breakout sessions with the staff involving workshops practicing creative thinking.

4. Next, you will need to identify which creative ideas that have come forward will be the most advantageous for you. This could be something as simple a slight change in the way you process your invoicing or as complex as introducing a completely new product line that you previously hadn�t pursued, but came to light as a possibility during one of your brainstorming sessions. Another example is if one of your key employees came up with �think Global�, so you are now seriously considering an overseas office. Once you have developed and prioritized, your list of creative thinking ideas you are going to act on, it is time to move to the implementation phase!

5. It�s one thing to accomplish creative thinking, but it is another to install a working group to implement this new approach. It has to be made clear to all, that management supports the process amendments that have come about as a result of the creative business workshops and you fully expect similar support from all involved. Assemble your implementation team with a good cross section of the involved departments and include both the positive supporters and the naysayers. Monitor implementation of changes and keep in mind that creative thinking should become a regular routine, making thinking outside the box an insider thing!

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Customize Your Own Pre-Monetized E-Super Store

Most shopping cart solutions are too complicated and too expensive. They take weeks to setup and require computer skills most people don't have. MyShopKart is for people who have no technical skills, want results quickly and have to work on a tight budget. I almost bought SiteBuildIt's E-store recommendation but it cost $700. I trust Ken Evoy's assessments of "quality" but the learning curve is what killed it for me.


Instead I bought Armand Melanson's "MyShopKart" for pennies on the dollar. It starts out up and running with products you can sell and lots of room to add your own products , services, categories etc. It takes all kinds of transactions and suits my e-store monetization needs just fine.

Let me know what works for you.

TVisio's Start Your Own MegaMart

Dynamic Webucation Conversion Growth Discovery

....., Conversion Growth is interesting. I get incredibly sidetracked on the Internet. I'm supposed to be searching on Webucation Masterminds but got sidetracked here somehow and am reading about this post instead. It's amazing how something that's supposed to take a few minutes ends up taking a few hours because it's so much more interesting reading about this post than searching on Webucation Ecommerce like I'm supposed to be doing.

"Duplicating Global Marketing Weapon"

"Duplicating Global Marketing Tool"
(c) William Whetstone, Cash-Flow-Logic.com

Blogging has become THE BOMB, the ultimate marketing tool.

Well the cool thing is blogs are also one of the most bibran affiliate marketing promol tools ever (more to it than AdSense if you can believe it!)

Blogs are here to stay PERIOD . Everyone with a brain (and some without one) is blogging about something all the time. AFFILIATE MARKETERS should always approach blogs as affiliate monetization tools to make boatloads of cash.

Of the gazillions of bloggers out there, most aren't even 'blogging for commissions'. Most simply don’t know what they are doing, or are treading the 'dangerous' path by putting up 'spam blogs' that have no shelf lives.

Content Spam is the new scourge of our civilization so don't do it!

Why spend money on software when you can do it better yourself...for free... and you
won't get banned by Google either.

If you want an ever-growing profitable blog that is sustainable for the long-term, don't take risks - use the 'white hat' and correct approach.

Just follow 5 simple rules.


1. Choose A Tightly Targeted Niche

Make a list of topics that interest you, or something that you are an expert on.

With that list, go to http://7search.com/scripts/searchterms/top_paying.asp
to see what the highest paying keywords are. Do any of your topics match any of those keywords? If not, look at those keywords, and try to pick one that you can discuss.

Top paying keywords are mostly about gambling and prescription drugs. Forget about those topics. Find something that interests you.

Or go to Yahoo Search Marketing at http://www.overture.com Find high paying keywords, or to find out how popular the topics are.

2. Discover Affiliate Programs For Your Niche

List good paying and high converting affiliate programs in your niche.
SEARCH HERE: ClickBank Marketplace, AssociatePrograms.com, LinkShare.com, CJ.com etc.


3. MONETIZE YOUR BLOG


Get a blog through a site such as http://www.blogger.com or http://www.wordpress.org.

Edit the templates for the blog to add in your affiliate marketing materials.

Use your main keyword for the niche you've selected IN the blogger blog domain.

Choose a name for your blog carefully. Avoid Vanity Blogs. Use your main keyword as it is in the title.

4. Post Keyword Content

Get content for your blog. A few good ones are:

- Free reprint articles (there're over 21,000+ internet marketing articles here)
- Private Label Products (here's a good collection)
- Writing your own

"Talk and write"

Relevant content and quality backlinks will do more for your SEO traffic than any 'software'.

Follow a fixed schedule of posting new content every two days when your blog is new.
Add in relevant affiliate recommendations within the content,.

5. Promote Blog For Traffic Stampede

This will get it ranked AND build a readership for your blog.

First thing to do is to submit your new blog into the main search engines and directories; link it to another indexed website; buy links, etc.
submit your blog.
http://www.masternewmedia.org/rss/top55/
http://www.pingoat.com
http://www.pingomatic.com

Use your main keywords in both the title and description.

All the Best!

Bill



Welcome to the Secret Affiliate Weapon members' only database!

This is where I'll be posting MOST of my affiliate marketing tips, tactics and recommendations of HOT affiliate programs so make sure you read them fully.

You'll receive instant email notifications whenever new posts are up. You'll also receive emails about other updates that won't be on this blog so look out for them.

The first powerful tactic I've for you today is known as...

The "Affiliate Profit Base"!

This is so simple it's scary.

It's a very cool and profitable 'trick' to use for promoting ANY affiliate product.
I've no doubt it'll bring you a whole lot of additional sales for ALL the affiliate products you've ever promoted. Money you otherwise wouldn't have made at all.


Great Tracking method:

Choose a good domain name and very time you promote a new product you would use this url as the main domain with your affiliate link as a sub-directory.

Example:

GlobalBlogMarket.com/product1
GlobalBlogMarket.com/product2
GlobalBlogMarket.com/product3

You'll start receiving traffic to your main domain from direct visitors or search engines depending on how you promote your links.
All the Best!


Bill

Hands Down Master of Conversion

Dan Lok Swore he would never do it but he has indeed
stepped forward and thrown down the gauntlet.

Dan could be the internet's greatest mentoring
guru. The proof is in the pudding.

I'll be letting you know if Dan Decides to take me
on as his understudy.

All the Best

Bill

Better Than Adwords?

It turns out there are some customers that are very, very
hard to find using Google advertising, and some ways of getting
them that are far better.

Are there some ways of reaching new customers that you're
overlooking? Probably so... get the rest of the story here:

• Buying space ads in e-zines
• Endorsed email blasts from affiliates
• Pop-under and popup ads on other sites
• Postcard mailings
• Direct Mail
• Magalogs - catalogs that look like magazines
• Spots in other peoples' catalogs
• FEDEX envelopes to highly-targeted prospects from carefully selected mailing lists
• Banner ads
• Radio
• TV
• Telemarketing
• Issuing a Press Release
• Writing a Book
• Being an "Expert" on a Talk Show
• Exhibiting at Trade Shows
• Flyers distributed house-to-house or business-to-business
• Doing a custom teleseminar for another person's email list
• Ads in magazines
• Remnant space in local newspapers, purchased at a deep discount rates
• Speaking at seminars
• Card Decks - i.e. packet of postcards that comes in the mail
• Writing magazine articles and e-zine articles
• "Buyer advocate" sites like Thomas Register and Globalspec
• Flyer inserts in newspapers, magazines or mail-order shipments (that's called "Insert media")
• "Lumpy Mail" - sending people interesting objects, like one guy I know who mailed out a six foot canoe paddle

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INSANE BLOWOUT SALES CONVERSION RECORD

Hi!

I’ve got some really exciting news for you.

I imagine you’ve probably been invited to promote info products online
before – but probably not like this ...

In about a week from now, we’re going to rock some people’s world with a
one–time, 5–day promotion. That’s right – not even a full week.

Yes – that’s right ... this is a one–time offer that lasts exactly 5 days
from beginning to end. You snooze – you lose. And you don’t have to
worry about sending follow–up after–follow–up trying to milk all the money
out of this promotion.

This is a take–it–or–leave–it deal ... and let me repeat it one more time
... this is a one–time deal ... lasting exactly 5 days.

So – I’ve got a sale to tell you about that will not only pay you very
well and offers cash bonuses, but these products in this sale are BRAND
NEW and have never been released to the public.

You can finally offer your customers and subscribers brand new and highly
useful products that actually teach them instead of just waste their money.

The sale is at INSANE BLOWOUT SALE.
Take a quick look at it. You’re going to be
totally shocked. And when you see the price, you’re going to flip. I still
can’t believe this incredible, unprecedented package is being offered for
this price.

If you’d like to be part of the promotion and make some fast money (plus
compete for some sweet cash bonuses) – all the affiliate information is at
http://www.insaneblowoutsale.com/jvrecommend.htm.

If you’d like to promote this offer, just go to affiliate link to sign up.
You can only promote this offer by invitation or by buying the package.
You get one shot at this. Don’t be left out.

You’ll be so glad you got involved ...

Thank you!

Bill Whetstone

P.S. – This One–Time Sale starts on Sept. 6th and ends on Sept. 11th at
midnight, so sign up now!

Conversion Growth At Google

After applying some new conversion growth techniques
on my website, I thought how Google's conversion rates
has impacted new product development and vice versa.
Creating new products may be the secret key to Google's
conversion growth.

New "Goodies" At Google

- by Jim Edwards

© Jim Edwards - All Rights reserved
http://www.thenetreporter.com


Search giant, Google.com, recently expanded their reach yet
again by offering new and expanded services going far beyond
simply searching the Internet for relevant information.

Jumping on a growing bandwagon already teaming with millions
of active users, Google now offers its own SMS search
service to allow mobile phone users access to their
database.

Google also released "Desktop 2," a personal information
manager that resides on your desktop to organize everything
from rss feeds and stock quotes, to photos and the weather.

Make no mistake, though Google seems to possess an uncanny
ability to make things useful and "cool," these latest
offerings represent Google staking out territory on your
desktop against rivals Microsoft and Yahoo!

** Google Expands Desktop **

Originally, the Google Desktop program simply organized your
files, emails and web searches into one place.

When you looked from a certain file or topic on your system,
the program returned relevant results from files on your
hard drive, email correspondence, and past web search
history.

The new version of Google Desktop expands significantly over
the original version by including a host of new services
designed to create your own "personal information manager"
right on your computer's desktop.

Probably the most obvious change is the "Sidebar," which
makes a significant new addition to the tool.

The Sidebar allows you immediate access not only to
information on your hard drive, but to specialized online
information based on your preferences and viewing habits.

The Sidebar also incorporates an RSS feed reader, making it
extremely simple for even complete novices to subscribe to
and read news feeds from the web.

Many would think this one feature of a simple rss reader
represents a direct step to grab the general consumer before
Microsoft can launch their Longhorn browser (which will
contain an rss reader).

Other additions include a news ticker, real time stock
quotes, photo viewer, quick-find feature with the ability to
launch programs just by typing in a few letters, and a
scratch pad.

Google definitely upgraded this previously limited program
to create a very handy personal organizer for your
computer's desktop. Log on to http://desktop.google.com to
download a free copy.

** Google Goes Mobile **

If you fall into the over-30 age range, you probably didn't
know that "SMS" stands for "Short Message Service."

Yet SMS comprises one of the fastest growing areas of all
communication on the planet.

Millions of people use SMS on their cell phones to
communicate as well as gather information.

Log on to http://www.google.com/sms/ to discover how Google
can now help you get information through your cell phone
fast and free.

Get everything from driving directions, local business
listings, and movie showtimes to local weather conditions,
dictionary definitions and even product pricing.

Imagine walking into a store, spotting an item you want to
buy, and before purchasing it know exactly how much you
could snag it for online.

Picture yourself in an unfamiliar town and getting driving
directions to the local Walmart. Google also operates a new
home page just for mobile users at
http://www.google.com/mobile/.

Watch for this area of online services to expand massively
in the near future.

--
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